Chez HCS Pharma, nous sommes ravis de partager avec vous les avancées significatives que nous avons réalisées dans nos projets de recherche et développement. Avant de commencer, nous tenons à remercier “La Gazette du Laboratoire” pour leur soutien continu et leur couverture détaillée de nos efforts. Notre entreprise, basée à Read more…
Next week we will have the pleasure to attend FOOD INGREDIENTS EUROPE & HEALTH INGREDIENTS EUROPE (FIE/HIE), which will take place in Paris, Porte de Versailles. Food ingredients Europe has been uniting the world’s leading food & beverage suppliers, buyers, R&D experts and production specialists for over 35 years. Originally Read more…
The first edition of OncoLille Days congress took place from November 2th to 4th, 2022 in Lille. All 3 days were very rich in interesting presentations about interdisciplinary research in oncology, including biology, mathematics, human sciences, etc. Our project leader Véronique De Conto was pleased to present her poster about Read more…
We are glad to announce the arrival of Gaspard in our team! Gaspard Delpouve obtained his Diploma of Advanced Technician in Biotechnologies in Lille in 2018, and in 2019 he passed a Bachelor’s degree in health biotechnologies at the University of Nantes. During his studies he completed several internships in Read more…
Next month, we will have the pleasure to participate in the 23rd EUSAAT (EUropean Society for Alternative to Animal Testing) congress, which will take place in Linz (Austria) on the 26th-28th of September. We have proposed an abstract about how we use 3D in vitro cell culture models for recapitulating Read more…
To treat brain disease is a challeging purpose, since the brain is protected by a barrier made by of tightly-joined endothelial cells of the cerebral microvessels, called the blood–brain barrier (BBB). To improve this route to reach the central nervous system, several strategies have been developed. Among them, researchers try Read more…
In 2020, Nia et al. published in the journal Science a review entitled ‘Physical traits of cancer‘. In this article, the authors proposed 4 distinct physical traits of cancer linked to the biomechanical abnormalities observed in tumoral tissues : an enhanced solid stress (compression and tension), i.e. the mechanical forces Read more…
2D cell culture has been used for more than 100 years now, to keep cells outside of their original organism and to use them for different purposes. It is still widely used in research and early steps of the drug discovery process, and has allowed a bunch of discoveries so Read more…
Have you missed our last webinar with Molecular Devices about 3D oncology models? In April, our project leader Elodie was talking about how to establish and image physiologically relevant 3D cancer in vitro models, using BIOMIMESYS Oncology as a surrogate for the tumoral extracellular matrix. Our product BIOMIMESYS® Oncology matrix Read more…
We will give a presentation next week (on Tuesday, 10th of March 2020) at the High-Content Cellular Imaging User meeting organized by our partner Molecular Devices, which will take place in Leiden (Netherlands). It is a great pleasure for us to attend the meeting, and to talk about the applications, Read more…
Last week we were glad to attend TERMIS-EU workshop in Nantes, dealing with 3D bioprinting in cancer research. There we presented 3 posters – that you can find on our website! – about BIOMIMESYS® product range, about iPSC-derived hepatocytes in BIOMIMESYS® Liver, and about BIOMIMESYS® for organ-on-chip systems… Moreover, we Read more…
The extracellular matrix (ECM) is known as a molecular network of macromolecules present in all solid tissues (Figure 1), which plays an important role in the growth, migration and differentiation of cells. This ECM is part of a complex and plastic microenvironment in health and disease: its composition and physical Read more…
The founding congress of the french STCM (Société de Toxicologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire) will take place in Paris at the end of this week (13th-14th June, 2019). The theme of this meeting will be “Toxicology towards the 3rd dimension“. We are looking forward to attending this congress, and to becoming Read more…
Our study director Elodie really enjoyed Vitafoods last week in Geneva, and the welcome she had on the different booths she visited along the three days! The show was very impressive, with a wide variety of exhibitors (more than 1.000 companies) and more than 20.000 visitors! Elodie spent much time Read more…
Jean-Baptise obtained his Master’s degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology at Paris-Sorbonne University in 2018 after a six-month internship with us. He focused on the development of a human microbiota model in collaboration with the Pharmacology Lab of University of Rennes 1 (INSERM U1230). He will keep on working on Read more…
Our study director Elodie will attend Drug Discovery 2018 – THE ELRIG‘s flagship conference – which will take place in London next week! We are looking forward to presenting our poster about neurotoxicity testing. Don’t hesitate to visit Elodie there, she will answer to your questions about our results, and/or our different services! Read more…
It is a great pleasure for us to welcome a new member in our scientific advisory board, Dr Samuel Meignan! He will for sure help us to develop relevant models related to oncology therapeutic area. Dr. Samuel Meignan is a senior researcher at the Inserm U908 laboratory ‘Cell Plasticity and Read more…